Ecclesiastes 8:14-16

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁴ There is a vanity which takes place on earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity. ¹⁵ And I commend enjoyment, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and enjoy himself, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of life which God gives him under the sun.

¹⁶ When I applied my mind to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night one’s eyes see sleep;